Amy Poehler Quotes
Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.
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Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.
